DevSecOps Practitioner (DSOP)®
 
Course Description
 
DURATION - 24 Hours
 
DevSecOps Practitioner introduces a range of practices for advancing to a more comprehensive understanding of DevSecOps practices. Explore practical outcomes through finding the right mix of people, building processes to accelerate value, and comparing technological options available today. Tailored for recently transformed organizations who are looking to enhance DevSecOps skills and awareness.
 
OVERVIEW
The DevSecOps Practitioner course is intended as a follow-on to the DevSecOps Foundation course. The course builds on previous understanding to dive into the technical implementation. Each section highlights useful metrics as well as integrating new techniques into differing practices. These modules offer suggestions on how to overcome people, process, and technological issues to develop better DevSecOps outcomes. Beginning with a deeper dive into the surrounding concepts, the course then considers either using existing metrics or developing unique expressions suitable to each DevOps experience. The middle section looks at architecture transitions, building an infrastructure, and tuning the CI/CD pipeline to best effect. Finally, the course offers ways to get the best from your experimentation practices and considers where the future of DevSecOps may lead.
 
The DevsecOps Practitioner course introduces more advanced ways to explore DevSecOps in your organization. Each section covers practical maturity guides, and then discusses how people, process and technology can be combined to improve outcomes.
 
The course aims to equip participants with the practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the organization involved in reliability through the use of real-life scenarios and case stories. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as implementing DevSecOps practices to their organizational structure, building better pipelines in distributed systems, and having a common technological language.
 
The course is developed by leveraging key DevSecOps sources, engaging with thought-leaders in the space and working with organizations to extract real-life best practices and has been designed to teach the key principles & practices necessary for successful DevSecOps practices.
 
This course positions learners to successfully complete the DevSecOps Practitioner certification exam. Please note: It is highly recommended that learners complete the DevOps Institute DevSecOps Foundation course and certification prior to taking the DevSecOps Practitioner course and exam.
 
COURSE OBJECTIVES
At the end of the course, the following learning objectives are expected to be achieved:
Comprehend the underlying principles of DevSecOps
Distinguish between the technical elements used across DevSecOps practices
Demonstrate how practical maturity concepts can be extended across multiple areas.
Implement metric-based assessments tied to your organization.
Recognize modern architectural concepts including microservice to monolith transitions.
Recognize the various languages and tools used to communicate architectural concepts.
Contrast the options used to build a DevSecOps infrastructure through Platform as a Service, Server-less construction, and event-driven mediums
Prepare hiring practices to recognize and understand the individual knowledge, skills, and abilities required for mature Dev.
 Identify the various technical requirements tied to the DevSecOps pipelines and how those impact people and process choices.
Review various approaches to securing data repositories and pipelines.
Analyze how monitoring and observability practices contribute to valuable outcomes.
Comprehend how to implement monitoring at key points to contribute to actionable analysis.
 

AUDIENCE
The target audience for the DevSecOps Practitioner course are professionals including:
Anyone focused on implementing or improving DevSecOps practices in their organization
Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches
Business Managers
Business Stakeholders
Change Agents
Consultants
DevOps Practitioners
IT Directors
IT Managers
IT Team Leaders
Product Owners
Scrum Masters
Software Engineers
Site Reliability Engineers
System Integrators
Tool Providers
 
LEARNER MATERIALS
24 hours of instructor-led training and exercise facilitation
Learner Manual (excellent post-class reference)
Participation in unique exercises designed to apply concepts
Sample documents, templates, tools, and techniques
Access to additional value-added resources and communities

PREREQUISITES
It is highly recommended that learners attend the DevSecOps Foundation course with an accredited DevOps Institute Education Partner and complete the DevSecOps Foundation certification prior to attending the DevSecOps Practitioner course and exam. An understanding and knowledge of common DevSecOps terminology, concepts, principles, and related work experience are recommended.
 
CERTIFICATION EXAM
Successfully passing (65%) the 90-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions, leads to the DevSecOps Practitioner certificate. The certification is governed and maintained by DevOps Institute.
 
COURSE OUTLINE
Course Introduction
Module 1: DevSecOps Advanced Basics
Why Advance Practices?
General Awareness
People-Finding Them
Core Process
Technology Overview
 
Module 2: Understanding Applied Metrics
Metric Terms
Accelerating
People-Reporting and Recording
Integrating Process
Technology Automation
 
Module 3: Architecting and Planning for DevSecOps
Architecture Basics
Finding an Architect
Reporting and Recording
Environments Process
Accelerating Decisions
 
Module 4: Creating a DevSecOps Infrastructure
What is Infrastructure?
Equipping the Team
Design Challenges
Monitoring Infrastructure
 
Module 5: Establishing a Pipeline
Pipelines and Workflows
Engineers and Capabilities
Continuous Engagement
Automate and Identify
 
Module 6: Observing DevSecOps Outcomes
Observability vs. Monitoring
Who gets which Report?
Setting Observation Points
Implementing Observability
 
Module 7: Practical 3rd Way Applications
Revisiting 3rd Way
Building Experiments
Getting the Most from the Experiment
 
Module 8: The Future of DevOps
Looking Towards the Future
Staying Trained
Innovation
What, and from Who?
 
Post-Class Assignments/Exercises
Extended advanced reading associated with Case Stories from the course